"There is great concern that the number of insects is decreasing," he said.
The researchers asked Dutch drivers to clean their front number plate, to go for a drive and then to count the number of squashed insects for recording on a website, named Splashteller.
"All licence plates are the same size so basically we have some seven million perfect sensors driving all around the country at different times of the day," said Dr van Vliet.
"On just the plates 3.3 billion bugs are killed. The front of the car is at least forty times as large as the surface of the plate. So over a month the cars hit 133 billion insects. In a half year that is 800 billion insects," said the Dutch biologist.
Using the same statistics, British drivers, with 31 million cars, inadvertently kill up to seven trillion insects while travelling every year.
Telegraph
dont forget safety jacket
and goggles :-)
Great suggestion. Greener and safer on the insects. Must remember to wear gum shields though :O)
They should go back to riding bikes :-/
Depends on the insect. Flies do marvelously well in Qatar.
I've just gotten over a mega roaches and wasps (the sight of the wasps hive on my balcony may have very well scarred me for life*shudders*) prob just recently and if I never see em again it'll be too soon!That said I quite like lady bugs,grass hoppers, and dragonflys and hope they are not of the endangered 'uns.
Herein lies the basic issue.. Pilgram is happy with poor insects being randomly murdered, but what if it happened to cats or newts :O(
holland is beautiful, i was there back in 1978,.... :( So?? if they killed this much, how much are the balance? what is the growth rate?
Holland is beautifull i was there in 2008
I'm not fan of insects Brit. Let em all die, I say.
This is a serious question. "There is great concern that the number of insects is decreasing," says Arnold van Vliet.This ofcourse has an effect on the overall eco-system. For instance, have you noticed how the wood for the clogs is not as it used to be ?
LP are u talking about Insects or people ? :(
Insects love rotting food, and there is plenty here!
Commonsense is nowhere in this post....Do here in Qatar we have that much of export of Tulips to worldwide nations?Do we have huuuuuge flower houses in here...Insects are basicaly associate with greenries.... :(
LOL. And here I thought this was a serious question. :P
Qatar doesnt have tat much of insects here coz we dont have much greenery around ! :(